Remember how sick Meg was?
"Oh, Mama. I don't feel good..."
After her brief (thankfully), but very scary bout with pancreatitis, Meg is back. See for yourself…
As for the STRANGE excitement…
This "strange man" mysteriously appeared...
Last night, while the girls were all outside, a strange man showed up in our kitchen. The minute she saw him, Belle started barking. Of course, K came running to investigate. She saw the strange man and started barking, too. Loudly. They both meant business. By that time, Meg showed up. She was barking, too, but her heart wasn’t in it. Especially after the strange man opened the door (the little girls were still barking), removed his big glasses (the little girls were STILL barking) and his yellow hat (barking continued).
The “strange man” was Hubby. I don’t think the little girls liked the yellow hat.
Later, after we finally convinced the little ones to come inside, things had settled down.
Thinking nothing of it, Hubby put the hat back on so he could return to the basement (he’s in the process of finishing it).
Meg was quite sick yesterday. She hadn’t been feeling quite herself for a couple of days, but things took a turn for the worse yesterday morning at 3:30 AM when we woke to the not-so-lovely sounds of Meg retching. It happened again at about 4:00. And again a short time later. I knew I wouldn’t be going back to sleep, so I took the dogs downstairs where Meg vomited again. And again. And again.
Not a happy camper.
It was obvious we needed to get her to the vet. To make a long story short, she has pancreatitis, a very painful inflammation/infection of the pancreas. I don’t know all the particulars, I just know she was feeling BAD. She wouldn’t even eat the small piece of raw ground beef I offered her before I started cooking dinner.
She’s got lots of meds, and we need to keep her on a bland diet. We also need to keep her water consumption to small amounts at a time until we know she can keep it all down.
I babied the old girl a bit last night. Want to see what recuperation looks like?
As I write this post, she’s giving me the “can I have a piece of your muffin look” that usually annoys me, but today makes me quite happy.
The old girl is on the mend! Woo hoo!
Thanks to all of you who expressed your concern and good wishes. My Meg has become a popular Facebook attraction. 🙂
I need to close now so I can take a piece of my muffin to Meg…
